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It is just under a year and a half ago that I found myself writing a piece called ‘A Black Friday’.
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Gambling played a significant part in man's deathA coroner has ruled that a gambling disorder played a significant part in the death of Gareth Evans, who took his own life in 2021.
Gambling
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No 'carve-outs' for parents in conversion practices billOlivia Bailey, the minister for equalities, has said that there will be no exemptions for parents in the government’s bill banning ‘abusive conversion practices’.
Freedom of Speech
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The BMA recommends safeguards for Assisted Suicide
Assisted Suicide
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Children using AI more for homework according to parentsA new report by the Parent Voice Project has found a significant increase in the number of parents suspecting that their children are using AI tools to complete their homework.
Artificial Intelligence
Press Releases
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Major wins in regulation of online pornography
Pornography
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Scottish Parliament rejects Assisted Suicide Bill
Assisted Suicide
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CARE for Scotland urges MSPs to reject assisted suicide ahead of…
Assisted Suicide
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CARE for Scotland comment: Royal College of Psychiatrists switches to oppose…
Assisted Suicide
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AI could reduce demand for office space
Artificial Intelligence
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Two-fifths of people support increasing slot machine taxesResearch by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) shows that 43% of UK adults think that the government should increase taxes on slot machines in betting shops.
Gambling
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One in three pregnancies end in abortion in England and WalesThe latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that nearly one in three conceptions in England and Wales now result in an abortion.
Abortion
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Govt publishes draft conversion practices BillThis morning, the Cabinet Office published the Draft Conversion Practices Bill. This legislation was first promised by Theresa May in 2018. But successive governments have grappled with the complexity of legislating over…
Freedom of Speech
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Transgender prisoners sent to jails according to biological sexThe Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has withdrawn its transgender policy, first implemented in 2014, which permitted transgender prisoners to be housed in a prison aligned with their gender identity, rather than their…
Transgender
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Child under 12 euthanised in the NetherlandsA child under the age of twelve, who was seriously ill, has been euthanised in the Netherlands, in the first case of its kind since the law was changed two years ago.
Assisted Suicide
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Intelligence agencies warn that AI is months away from causing havocThe ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence agencies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US have warned that powerful artificial intelligence models are ‘months away’ from wreaking havoc in cyber attacks.
Artificial Intelligence
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Children as young as six on transgender waiting listNumbers published by The Telegraph following a Freedom of Information request show that children as young as six-years-old are on the waiting list for NHS gender care.
Transgender